Iran's spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has stated that the responsibility for the crowd crush near Mecca lies with the Saudi authorities, urging them to apologize to the victims and the families of the victims.
According to Khamenei, the Saudis should not blame anyone else, but should accept responsibility and apologize to Muslims and to the bereaved families. "The Islamic world has a lot of questions," RIA Novosti quotes Khamenei as saying.
On Thursday, September 24, in the Mina Valley near Mecca, a crowd crush occurred due to the intersection of two flows of people, in which more than 700 people died.
